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flit (fl

intr.v. flit·ted, flit·ting, flits

1. To move about rapidly and nimbly.

2. To move quickly from one condition or location to another.

1. A fluttering or darting movement.

2. Informal An empty-headed, silly, often erratic person.

[Middle English flitten, from Old Norse flytja, to carry about, convey; see pleu- in Indo-European roots.]

flitter n.

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flitting [ˈflɪtɪŋ] N (N Engl, Scot) → mudanza f

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It was for the Mediterranean sailors that fair-haired sirens sang among the black rocks seething in white foam and mysterious voices spoke in the darkness above the moving wave - voices menacing, seductive, or prophetic, like that voice heard at the beginning of the Christian era by the master of an African vessel in the Gulf of Syrta, whose calm nights are full of strange murmurs and flitting shadows.

The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context

After all, as you know well, man is a flux of states of consciousness, a flow of passing thoughts, each thought of self another self, a myriad thoughts, a myriad selves, a continual becoming but never being, a will-of-the-wisp flitting of ghosts in ghostland.

John Barleycorn by London, Jack View in context

Levin maintained that the mistake of Wagner and all his followers lay in their trying to take music into the sphere of another art, just as poetry goes wrong when it tries to paint a face as the art of painting ought to do, and as an instance of this mistake he cited the sculptor who carved in marble certain poetic phantasms flitting round the figure of the poet on the pedestal.

Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context

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